- Glenn Brown
Glenn Brown (born 1966 in
Hexham ) is an English artist and painter who was nominated for theTurner Prize in 2000.Brown appropriates images created by living, working artists, such as
Frank Auerbach andHoward Hodgkin , as well as images by artists more established in the historical canon, such asRembrandt orSalvador Dalí . Brown's paintings, which are uniformly smooth in surface, typically offer atrompe l'oeil illusion of turbulent, painterly application.There was some controversy over his exhibition at the 2000 Turner Prize, as one of the paintings was closely based on a science-fiction illustration "Double Star" produced in 1973 by the artist
Tony Roberts . [cite web
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1044375.stm
title=Copycat row hits Turner Prize
author=
date=2000-11-28
accessdate=2007-11-26] Brown has also appropriated individual space scene paintings byChris Foss and in the one case copying and altering it (Exercise One (for Ian Curtis), 1995) and in the other, leaving it entirely unchanged (Dark Angel (for Ian Curtis), 2002). This gave rise to a charge of plagiarism. The resulting legal action was eventually settled by Brown out of court.Brown is represented by Patrick Painter Inc in
Los Angeles ,Gagosian Gallery inNew York , and Galerie Max Hetzler inBerlin . [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/gallery/brown_glenn.html]See also
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Young British Artists
*Appropriation (art)
*British art References
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